Richard Sale’s Collins Ramblers’ Guide to North Wales describes a wide range of walks ranging from such challenging classics as the Snowdon Horseshoe and the Bristley Ridge with Tryfan to effortless little strolls like this. I'm afraid I seem to have done more of the strolls than the challenges. This one really is just an easy afternoon jaunt filling about an hour. You follow the path out of the car park at Idwal cottage ignoring a path branching off to the right down a rocky defile and you are soon enough arriving at the lakeside where you have to make momentous decision whether to follow the lovely path round clockwise or anticlockwise. I went anticlockwise.